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What I Noticed On Social Media During the 2017 Hurricane Season

Austin Startup

Irma and Maria together practically wiped out the entire island of Puerto Rico. But instead of being glued to my television or listening to the radio in my vehicle (because who has a radio in their home in 2017), I learned about these storms via social media. Here we go!

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

So I noticed from stories on social media, I guess, that countries that were using masks a lot, seem to be getting better outcomes than countries that didn't at like hundreds of times better, which is exactly the evidence which a lot of medical folks tend to ignore because it's so imperfect. How that data came into your awareness.

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Out of the Crisis #22: Ron Klain on pandemic response and preparedness, entrepreneurship, and rebuilding trust in institutions

Startup Lessons Learned

The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before. Every day, you go on social media. Is there a way we could've avoided or at least softened the damage? Who could've seen this coming? But this kind of pandemic is not actually unprecedented.